New Ulm weekly review., 1887-10-19
DAKOTA NEWS ITEMS.
Col. G. 3. Penrose, chief commis-
sary of the department of Dakota,

just ordered to Fort Leayenworth,
KAN, as chief commissary OF the de-
partment of the Missouri, has served
in the department Of Dakota since
October 1882.
Il Dakota patents: G. N. Asselstine,
Hamilton, anvil for forming plow-,
shares; also anvil for forming land
sides for plows; j. III. Aslen, Howell,
plate glass polisher fre-issue); G.
Laube, Huron, hay burner.
The Dakota delegation, nearly two
hundred strong, were among the ear
lest callers on the President.
At St. Paul, the delegation was
headed by Gov. Church and Secretary
Mccormack.
The fine country residence OF Theos
David, OF the territorial board of ag-
riculture, six miles north of Mitchell.
burned to the ground. All the cloth
ing. furniture and everything else of
value IN the house was destroyed.
Total loss $4,000.
At Sioux Falls, a young man named
Melvin Davis, fell Fl ON the roof of the
Cascade grain elevator, distance OF
fifty feet, and was killed.
The Aberdeen Evening Republican
has began publication. It is Demo-
cratic daily.
Three heavily laden passenger trains
came into Mitchell bearing excursion
lists from the East to look over Da-
kota.
At Landau, Francis e. Bowman dis
trict attorney OF Morton county, died
after a lingering illness, aged 28 years.
de was an able lawyer, an odd fellow,
and had been noble grand.
1T. Mcintyre OF Grand Junction.
Iowa. chief engineer OF the proposed
railroad from Sioux City to Marshall,
Minn., died at Canton, OF typhoid
fever.
There was held at Fargo the Cass
county local option convention with
representatives from all parts OF the
s ~
county About sixty persons were
present. Plans were adopted by which
it is hoped to carry prohibition this
fall. The appointment of local com.
mlttees was LETT to the chairman Of
the executive committee, Rev. R. A.
Beard.
The administration has finally in
terested itself in the opening of the
Sioux reservation. Col. Bannister
special agent of the Indian depart.
ment, arrived at Pierre, to look into
the urgency OF opening the reserve,
and on his report hinges the result.
He seems to think that the ioux res
ervation must be cut down.
During the Ashton fair four gentle
manly strangers registered at the Ack.
ley house. Their businesss was in the
fancy line such as balloons, ect., sold
on the fair grounds. In few days
they skipped, with a large hotel bill
unpaid The following day Landlord
Hollenbeck received letter from the
Commercial Hotel of Faulkton, in
quiring for overcoats which had been
loaned to these gentlemen and which
were to be left at the Ackley house.
Complaints of q failure to receive
cars for wheat shipments by private
buyers and shippers were heard by
the railroad commissioners at Car.
rington and Sykeston. and at Coopers.
town. Mr.. Grlggs, of the commission
says the former cases have good
grounds, and that in every instance
the commission will do all possible to
s traighten matters out.
At Sioux Falls. a genuine bare
knuckle sluggish scrap, Queensbury
rules, took place in the basement OF
the Daily Press Office between G. H.
Craig and w. Z. Belrood, printers en-
ployed on tbs Press. The fight was
i've rounds, but Belrood, who is much
the smaller man, was knocked out in
the third round.
In the case of James A. Pringle, in
volving the southwest quarter section
21, township 155, range 66, Devils
Lake district, the secretary Of inte,
rior holds that a mortgagee OF land
must be notified Of decision holding
an entry for cancellation and allowed
a hearing to prove the good faith OF
the mortgagor IN complying with the
law If the former asks for it.
The failure OF A. Pollock & Co., at
Omaha carried down their branch
house at Huron.
At Fargo, q gambler named sutter
and Mrs. John Haas were arrested,
charged with resorting to rooms for
purposes Of prostitution. They were
held under $500 bonds. Mrs. Haas
was formerly a. resident Of Winona,
and was a sporting woman known as
MAUD S." She was married four
years ago, professed conversion last